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Online marketing is a highly competitive, data driven business. Companies have developed all manner of tools for understanding and targeting consumers according to demographic and behavioral data. But there are fewer options available in the business to business (B2B) space, despite the fact that the “enterprise” category is as...

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Petr Merkulov explains Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business. Companies have to manage security across a wide range of issues and threats. Operating systems and applications have to be patched and updated. Active monitoring needs to be in place to identify and block malware threats. Data needs to be protected...

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Reddit, Foursquare, Mozilla and a number of other companies were hit with technical problems Saturday evening when a single “leap second” was added to the world’s atomic clocks. And so was born the “leap second bug.” Atomic clocks are the keepers of precise official times. On Saturday at 5...

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Guest author Anthony Smith is CEO of Insightly. You may have read a lot of articles last year about why the so-called "freemium" model doesn't work for most consumer-oriented companies. And it's true; offering a base-level product for free to gain visibility and marketshare and then converting a subset of...

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The headhunting business was born because companies realized how much is at stake when they choose the wrong talent. But the internet has changed the headhunting game: research, networking and referrals can now be accomplished through sites like LinkedIn and Monster, which means professional recruiters find themselves in struggling careers. "A...

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Connecting people and things, whether by job function, personal interest, or a particular kind of computer equipment, is an immense growth business. Companies are finding all kinds of ways to extract value by building conversations. So specialized social networks are being created in order to make businesses work together better....

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Don't know what to say next on an Internet date? Bring along Amazon's Mechanical Turk via your smartphone, and let the whole Internet be your wingman. Online dating is a $4 billion business. Companies like OkCupid, Match.com, and Howaboutwe use collaborative filtering and crunch big data to help you...

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Truphone has always had a soft spot for the international business traveler. When it became a virtual mobile carrier in 2010, its core service was a plan that charged you local rates for voice, SMS and data on either side of the Atlantic – a boon to any globetrotter accustomed...

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“Business intelligence has been the Yugo of business investments,” says Roman Stanek. “It always broken and ends up as little more than a money pit.” Stanek’s cloud-based business intelligence platform GoodData was created to reverse this perception by offering a data analytics solution that not only structures data, but...

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SkyKick, a Seattle startup designed to help businesses easily move to Office 365, confirmed with GeekWire that it has raised $1.1 million. The company will continue investing in research and development, build out its cloud technology platform and serve its small business customer base. SkyKick is formerly known as CloudVisors, which launched...

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Yahoo is actively look for somebody to buy its ad tech business. Companies rumored to be interested include IBM and Accenture. How much does Yahoo want? No one from Yahoo has told us, but gossipers in M&A circles say $500 million is too low, and that the Yahoo board doesn't...

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We write about a lot of cool projects here at The Next Web and not all of them are meant to be turned into a full-time gig or profitable business. Companies like Twitter and Foursquare make APIs for its products publicly available to developers to tinker away on, helping to...

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Evernote, the productivity app that helps you digitally organize notes, to-do lists and more, announced that it will launch a new service aimed at small- and medium-sized businesses in December. Introduced by Evernote CEO Phil Libin at the Evernote Trunk Conference in San Francisco, Evernote Business expands on the company’s...

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Hot on the heels of its $3.75 million seed round in August, Influitive is continuing to climb. Today, the company announced that it closed a $7.3 million Series A, bringing it total for the year to over $11 million. Influitive’s software helps businesses mobilize their customers into advocates and use...

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If Windows 8 succeeds, it will be because its users come to embrace three of its exclusive elements as critical to the way they work and the things they do. Here we address the first of those elements: Windows 8's approach to sharing media. Unlike almost any other mass-produced...

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Increasingly, recruiters and managers are going beyond the resume and evaluations and turning to Big Data. That means a lot of old practices for evaluating people and stereotypes about who succeeds are falling apart. Google, known for rigor in evaluating people, has devalued SAT scores and college GPA, which have...

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For traditional businesses, social media is like a virus: it’s furious, fast-growing, and impossible to ignore. According to a new survey released by the Stanford Rock Center for Corporate Governance, the Center for Leadership Development and Research at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and The Conference Board, less than a third of companies today use social...

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Companies looking into enterprise solutions will likely be overwhelmed by the variety of options available and may not know the first place to start when considering which product is the right fit for their needs. Susanne Koch’s recent presentation “The Landscape of Enterprise Search” on Pandia.com highlights some of the...